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Jose Sarmiento vs. Employees' Compensation Comm eta

JOSE B. SARMIENTO, petitioner, vs. EMPLOYEES' COMPENSATION COMMISSION & GOVERNMENT SERVICE INSURANCE SYSTEM (National Power Corporation), respondents.

G.R. No. L-65680 | 1988-05-11

D E C I S I O N


GUTIERREZ, JR., J.:

This is a petition for review of the decision rendered by the Employees' Compensation Commission in ECC Case No. 2134 on August 25, 1983 which affirmed the decision of the Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) denying the petitioner's claim for death benefits as surviving spouse of the late Flordeliza Sarmiento.

The findings of the respondent Commission are as follows:

"The record shows that the late Flordeliza Sarmiento was employed by the National Power Corporation in Quezon City as accounting clerk in May 1974. At the time of her death on August 12, 1981 she was manager of the budget...